Performance Frequency Quotes

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year - when the masters do it, it's like, 'Okay, I guess, go for it' - but when people aren't at the top of the top level, bits don't get to cook long enough.

Everyone who wants to make it in comedy goes to L.A., so a million comedians fight for time on three stages. If you get in there in New York, you're working eight times a night sometimes. Who's going to be funny, the guy who works once a week, or the guy working eight times a night?

If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.

Like, I'd rather tour maybe six months out of the year, instead of nine.

Very early on, I met this one comic who said if you're not doing stand-up every night, you're not doing it. And so I just kind of believed that and worked off that.

But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

I love being on the road, but to make a living as a road comic, you have to be on it most weeks out of the year. That's just too much for me. But I would love to be such a successful road comic that I don't have to go on it every week.

Sometimes you're playing two or three times a week.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.

I've lost count of how many times I have performed in Chennai.

The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.

Certainly, when I left New Zealand, there was no career there as a comedian. I was doing more live gigs than anyone, and I was maybe doing three a week. Even then, it would often be the same people in the audience, going, 'I saw you on Tuesday, mate!'

The show girls do, like, 12 shows a day. I only did one or two shows a day, and I was like, 'I need to go to sleep.'

This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.